Risk of Rain creator and Deadlock developer Duncan 'Hopoo' Drummond teased the upcoming Valve shooter's newest playable character months ago, and amid a long history of gushing leaks… no one did anything about it. It seemed too unbelievable.
Drummond wrote in Deadlock's official Discord in November 2025, "at least no one has leaked chickenwing, ted, or abrams jr yet," to a smattering of sarcastic fire emoji reactions. Some people fixated on the sentence, wondering in a Reddit thread discussing Drummond's Discord activity, "lolwut." Then they decided it was only a joke – Hopoo is funny, you know, and no one is really named Chickenwing – until realizing this week that Drummond was preparing Deadlock players to meet Celeste.
